The most interesting puzzle games this year
All the best and most popular games of the year, upcoming releases, and hits from the past. Use filters to narrow down search.
Backpack Battles
Puzzle 08 March 2024
A multiplayer PvP auto battler. Backpack Battles tasks us with properly preparing our character before combat, setting up items in their backpack to maximize their combat capabilities.
Balatro
Puzzle 20 February 2024
A roguelike card game loosely based on the poker rules. Balatro has us participate in solo card duels, gradually unlocking new card decks and joker cards with unique abilities and effects. The game offers a story campaign, as well as various single challenges.
Boxes: Lost Fragments
Puzzle 01 February 2024
A puzzle game in which our main goal is to get out of a mysterious mansion. All the tools needed to achieve that are hidden inside complex boxes-puzzles. Boxes: Lost Fragment was created by Big Loop Studios, a developer with experience in creating similar titles.
World of Goo 2
Puzzle 02 August 2024
The second installment in a series of puzzle games starring the titular goo. World of Goo 2 tasks us with creating structures from blobs of goo, dealing with the laws of physics and increasing difficulty.
Paper Trail
Puzzle 21 May 2024
Paper Trail is a puzzle game with a world made of double-sided pieces of paper. The protagonist, freshman Paige, has the power to fold them in such a way as to create a path for herself to places inaccessible to others.
Human: Fall Flat 2
Puzzle 2024
The second installment in a series of TPP puzzle platformers, in which we solve environmental puzzles while dealing with the playable characters' inertia. Human Fall Flat 2 was created with co-op in mind.
The Enjenir
Puzzle 2024 (early access since 18 December 2023)
A puzzle and arcade game with an advanced physics engine. In The Enjenir we build various structures from scratch (which have to be strong enough not to fall apart right after the design phase), and we control the hero directly by controlling each of his limbs separately.
Animal Well
Puzzle 09 May 2024
Animal Well is a puzzle game with platform game elements. We explore 2D maps, avoid dangers, collect objects and most of all solve puzzles.
Quilts and Cats of Calico
Puzzle 05 March 2024
A puzzle game, which is a digital adaptation of the Calico board game. Quilts and Cats of Calico has us create hexagonal quilts of various colors and patterns. Our goal is to meet the preferences of the cats with the quilts we've done. We can play the story mode or skirmishes.
Mythastasis
Puzzle 2024
Neuromyth is an original, mobile puzzle game where the fun is to shape surreal, animated images, representing neurons in the mind of a sleeping god. The game was developed by independent Ice-Pick Lodge studio.
Hypermind
Puzzle June 2024 (early access since 15 March 2022)
A puzzle game by independent developer recursionstudio, inspired by Portal, The Legend of Zelda and The Talos Principle. The player's task is to traverse chambers and solve puzzles using a multifunctional cannon that bends the laws of physics.